Who Collects The Scattered Flowers? Poem by nimal dunuhinga

Who Collects The Scattered Flowers?

Rating: 3.5


When you eat a Shark-fin soup
sitting on a Chinese rooftop Restaurant
did you see that
ragged orphan boy
at the World's end
drinks muddy water
and his sister just attended the age
'Puberty' on the road?
Her slim body she looks in a broken mirror
that covered with a torn cloth
a city political banner?
Be careful my sibling!
The handsome politicians'
boisterous sons fly on the streets
with their shiny Limousines
who're greedy for fresh flowers
like their gentle fathers?

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
To the novelist Ru Freeman for her new book 'On Sal Mal Lane'!


[On this road live the middle class and dirt poor; youth vivacious with talent, or misshapen by abuse.A looming civil war threatens to engulf the multiethnic Sri Lankan street of Ru Freeman's novel.]-Cristina Garcia


nimal p.dunuhinga
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kalubovila East, Sri Lanka
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